CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Symbolic Interactionism, Labeling Theory

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 1300
• Professor: Michael Kempa

Document Summary

People act toward the human and nonhuman objects in their lives according to the meanings that those objects have for them. The meaning of those objects for each individual emerges from interactions between him and her and other people=social transaction. The meanings of objects change depending on the situation and context: meaning= reality+ individual interpretation in context. Micro and critical consensual theory (sometimes straddling the conflict line) Deviance is not a quality of the act but of the label that others attach to the act. Deviant label is subject to considerable negotiation between possible deviant people and those in a position to apply the label of deviant to them: it is a transactional process. Labeling and its consequences are viewed as unfolding within the deviant career. The passage of an individual through recognized stages in one or more related identities associated with the labelling process.